Welcome to my tenth newsletter.
Plenty to report this time, with several new repetition works completed and published on my website with a lot more to go up there very soon. I have also recently sold three works to private collectors, which is fantastic news after a long summer of making and several cancelled events. My last minute decision to hold my own open studios in place of the sadly cancelled Bridport Open Studios was a great success considering how late I was in announcing it, with plenty of visitors on all four days. The great thing about the open studios events is that it is the perfect moment to take stock of what is actually going on, rather than focusing on specific tasks to complete. It is fun to be making something as someone enters, and literally talking about what is happening right there and then, things and thoughts that will soon disappear.
I have been invited to show several works at the Winter Art Expo 2020, a group show of 20 artists at a fantastic countryside venue in Corscombe, Nr Beaminster in West Dorset. I am very excited to be showing some of my stranger works as well as a couple of the latest repetition wall pieces. The DysonDC03insect comes out for the first time, which is amazing as it has been buzzing around my studio for over 3 years now.
I am going to put it up on Saatchiart soon so this may be the one and only appearance it makes! Im also showing the Petvac5, my current favourite, complete with programmed power indicator lights. I am hoping for a scanning action from left to right, a knightrider meets HAL9000 feel. Also making its first appearance outside the studio, and quite definitely not ready yet, will be my largest found plastics sculpture to date, 'Poleaxed'. As yet uncompleted; I have yet to secure many of the components, construct the base and programme the lights, but it is a really exciting opportunity to complete and show this one. I am putting a page up about that work here too.
The reframed shotgunshellswormington , now for sale on saatchiart will also be on show at the Winter Art Expo, as will a new repetition work, 'Mollette'.
The show will also be supporting the incredible Koestler Arts, an organisation formed in 1962 by Arthur Koestler, a charity which helps ex-offenders, secure patients and detainees in the UK to express themselves creatively:
"Koestler Arts is the UK’s best-known prison arts charity. We encourage people in the criminal justice system to change their lives by participating in the arts. We share their artworks with the public, so people can witness this diverse range of voices, stories and talent."
Of the nine Artist Support Pledge works I have so far posted on instagram, two have sold so Im keen to select a few more soon, and will be posting them in groups of three again. These are the nine posted so far.
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